Labyrinth graffito — here lives the Minotaur
About the work
Imported from the workbook's Full reassessment sheet, revised 7 October 2026 (record ID 102). The assessment below is the workbook's comparative judgment under its stated criteria; source links and limits are retained.
Workbook assessment: Insufficient evidence
Date or witness: Pompeian graffito before 79 CE; labyrinth imagery has a much longer history
Region: Pompeii, Italy
Workbook date-sort bounds: unknown to 79 CE; these bounds are not automatically invention or disappearance dates.
Description
A scratched labyrinth accompanies a caption locating the Minotaur in it: an old myth condensed into a small image and label.
Evidence of adoption or transmission
The selected wall drawing condenses a myth into a labyrinth and caption.
What remains uncertain
A single selected example does not itself establish independent repetition of this captioned format; the general antiquity of labyrinth imagery is insufficient.
Workbook revision note: Reassessed using grassroots criteria